Introducing our guest editor, Vanessa Gomez Brake
I’ve been living New York City for the last week in a mini-residency to focus on some more substantial writing projects, and I’ll be here for the next three weeks. Vanessa Gomez Brake, interviewed...
View ArticleMy Interview with David Pizarro for Religion Dispatches
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing David Pizarro, professor of psychology at Cornell University and host of the fantastic podcast, Very Bad Wizards. He and I had a great conversation about the...
View ArticleExplanations and story-telling, or how to write about science
I’ve had a steady gig at The Daily Beast for a half-dozen months or so which, more than paying me too generously, has given me a great opportunity to do some more science writing. I’ve enjoyed this a...
View ArticleHow a subway step explains Ferguson
At Religion Dispatches, Andrew Aghapour has a great piece about the cognitive psychology behind our failures in blame. My favorite metaphor he highlighted (because those are important) is a subway...
View ArticleJames Croft and Steve Neumann on atheist diplomacy
I’ve been catching up on some material since I’ve been back from writing in New York (I’ve also picked up a few very exciting and promising projects), and I stumbled on a roundtable discussion from...
View ArticleCould there be an ISIS without an Islam?
Speaking of catching up on things I’ve missed while I’ve been gone, I was asked my thoughts about a cover story from March’s issue of The Atlantic. It reminded me of another article from The Atlantic...
View ArticleThe New Republic’s review of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s necessary new book
Ta-Nehisi Coates is quickly becoming one of America’s great public intellectuals. Bijan Stephen, an Associate Editor at The New Republic and an old friend, recently wrote about Coates’s latest book,...
View ArticleThe science of white fragility
According to Robin DiAngelo, a professor at Westfield State University, white fragility is: a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive...
View ArticleI’ve written a lot of stuff this week! A Roundup
It’s been a hectic few weeks for me, and a lot of pieces I’ve been working on for the last month or so have finally been published. This has been really rewarding and cool. At The Daily Beast, you can...
View ArticleA portrait of the place where Evangelical politics and climate change meet
The climate talks in Paris are in their second week, and it’s sometimes difficult on such a global stage to appreciate the small and local ways that climate change affects us. Consider the Hampton...
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